Saturday, October 21, 2023

  9:30 A.M.

Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library 9005 Aero, Dr., San Diego, CA 92123

rwanda today & female afghan studentS

Program: Bonita Chamberlin; World Traveler and Good Will ambassador

Although a San Diego native, Bonita Chamberlin has lived, worked, and lectured in many countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle and Near East.

She holds a doctorate from the Universidad de los Andes in Biological Sciences and is recognized as a specialist in training people in Lesser Developed Countries, working
with diverse cultures and within various political and economic situations.

Having recently spent five weeks in Rwanda and Uganda, Bonita will provide background on the two countries’ physical situation, human environment and modern history, as well as the rise and fall of competing internal forces. She will give us invaluable insights into her personal relationships with the people with whom she has lived and worked.

She will then focus on Rwanda and the Afghan girls who have managed to find refuge and education in Rwanda.

Barbara Strugar, VP Programs, Friend and Admirer of Bonita

  Sunday, September 10, 2023

  1:30 P.M.

North University Community Library

WE MEET OUR 2023 TECH TREK PARTICIPANTS

Program: Meeting our 2023 Tech Trek Girls!

Tech Trek Camp was back LIVE in 2023!

After having to deal with the third computer program in three years, we successfully sent seven 7th grade girls to a LIVE Tech Trek camp at UCSD this year. (Gigantic THANKS to Dr. Mimi Isaac of La Mesa-El Cajon branch, who oversaw all the California camps. When things seemed insurmountable, she simplified them!)

I went to the camp on four mornings to help out in a Forensics class, and I loved it! Especially the day we went to the lower green area where the girls in full white-hooded coverups and protective glasses made blood spatters on a tent’s walls using cow’s blood. They also created artwork painting with the same blood! Studying forensics required using chemistry, biology, zoology, statistics, and math!

This was an incredible experience for 12 and 13-year-olds, who loved “going to college.” Read letters of thanks from our girls, emailed separately, and meet them at this general meeting!

Thanks to all for making this successful TT year possible!

Olivia Werner, Tech Trek Coordinator.

  Saturday, May 20, 2023

  10:00 A.M.

North University Community Library

HEALTHY AGING: IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS…

Program: President-Elect Carole Banka

Dr. Carole Banka received her Ph.D. from the UCSF School of Medicine and did postdoctoral training in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSD and the Department of Immunology at the Scripps Research Institute. Her independent research career was launched with the Florence Seibert/Sharon Schuster
Postdoctoral Fellowship from AAUW.

She has held faculty positions at the Scripps Research Institute and the La Jolla Institute for  where she was Director of Women’s Health Research and an Adjunct Faculty Position at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Banka recently retired from the Department of Medicine at UCSD.

Dr. Banka has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, the journal Science and has published more than 40 articles, editorials and book chapters. She has received numerous local and national awards for her public speaking in areas of women’s health. Throughout her career her research interests included questions related to women’s health, including heart disease, breast cancer and the biology of estrogen. Her topic, “Healthy Aging: It’s the Little Things…” should be entertaining and enlightening.

Jan Hill & Susan Czertak, Program Co-VPs

  Saturday, April 15, 2023

  11:00 A.M.

  Home of Olivia Werner

Title IX – Then and now

Our speaker, Amber Eckert, is the Title IX coordinator for the Title IX office of San Diego Community College District and supports district-wide Title IX compliance, including the development, implementation, and monitoring of notifications, policies, and procedures to
comply with federal regulations. Specific responsibilities include the prompt, thorough and impartial investigation and timely resolution in compliance with Title IX regulation of all instances of sex/gender discrimination/harassment reported by students, faculty, employees, or third parties.

Prior to joining the San Diego Community College District, Ms. Eckert serve as Vice President of Student Affairs and Compliance at Alliant University; Vice President of Student Affairs at Ashford University; Dean of Student Affairs at The Art Institute of California – San
Diego; Director of Career Services for DeVry University Southern California; and Coordinator of Campus Clubs and Activities at Cal Poly Humboldt. Ms. Eckert holds a
M.Ed. in College Student Personnel Services from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and a B.A. in Political Science from Cal Poly Humboldt, Arcata, CA

Ms. Eckert will address how and why Title IX was initiated, its successes, those areas that still need to be addressed, and the current focus of this law.

Our meeting includes a sandwich lunch!

Lunch details: We are ordering sandwiches from Jersey Mike’s as well as providing a vegetable tray with dip. The best part, a homemade chocolate dessert! Lunch cost is $15 per person.
Your check is your reservation. If attending, please mail your $15 check made out to “Cabrillo-Diego AAUW” to Jan Hill no later than Monday, April 10.

Lyn Kagey, President
Jan Hill & Susan Czertak, Program Co-VPs

  Saturday, March 18, 2023

  10:30 A.M.

  North University Community Library
8820 Judicial Dr., San Diego 92122

MY ZIG-ZAG TRAJECTORY IN SCIENCE

Dr. Jane Dyson, Ph.D.

Dr. Jane Dyson received the degree of B.Sc.(hons) from the University of Sydney in 1973 and a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in 1977. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1977-78, and held a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell postdoctoral award. She was appointed as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of New South Wales in 1979 and joined the Scripps Research Institute in 1984, where she is presently a Professor. She received the degree of D.Sc. from the University of Sydney in 2009 and was awarded the 2019 ISMAR Prize from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance. In 2022 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.

Dr Dyson undertakes basic research into the properties and functions of proteins. Her interests span the conformation of peptides, protein folding and dynamics, and structure and functional studies of proteins, both folded and intrinsically disordered, using NMR and other spectroscopic techniques.

Dr. Dyson writes: “My title is ‘My zig-zag trajectory in science’. As for all of us, there have been ups and downs in a 40-year career in science. In describing my own personal path, I hope to share some of the lessons I have learned along the way, about expectations, outcomes, and digging oneself out of holes.”